How to use scale animation to hide image in Android

Question

Is it possible to hide image using scale animation in xml. What I mean is that I have an image on the screen and I want to hide it using scale animation in the direction from 0.0 -> 1.0. So the image is on the screen and I want to start scaling it from left to right until it disappear. Is it possible?

This is not what I want. You see my app is suporting devices below 3.0. And I don't want to move an image. I want to scale it, but in opposite direction. The scale animation works with the coords of the screen, so the image will be shown if you start from 0.0 to 1.0. But I want to hide it from 0.0 to 1.0. Is it possible?

Answer 1

I managed to do what I wanted. I used scale animation with the tag pivotX. With pivotX or pivotY you can set from what point of the image to start the animation and in what direction. You have to play a little bit with it until you recive your desired animation. Here is my code:

    <scale
        android:duration="4000"
        android:fromXScale="1.0"
        android:fromYScale="1.0"
        android:pivotX="450"
        android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator"
        android:startOffset="300"
        android:toXScale="0.0"
        android:toYScale="1.0" />